1784. L'Heritier: Stirpes Novæ, &c. Folio. Full of fine plates.--_City._
1787. Curtis: The renowned "Botanical Magazine" was commenced this year. No Manchester library contains the whole. The following are the localities of all the town possesses, including a portion in the "Royal Exchange":--1787-1842, vols. 1 to 68, _City_; 1843-1859, vols. 69 to 85, _Royal Exchange_; 1860-1869, vols.
86 to 95, nowhere; 1870-1882, vols. 96 onwards to present time, _City._
1790-1814. Smith and Sowerby's "English Botany." Thirty-six vols., 8vo. 2,592 coloured plates.--_City, P. P._
1800. Desfontaines. Flora Atlantica. Four vols., 4to. Contains 261 fine old plates.--_City._
1816. W. J. Hooker: The British Jungermannias. 4to. Full of exquisite coloured plates.--_City._
1818-1833. Loddiges: The Botanical Cabinet. Contains 2,000 coloured plates.--_P. P._
1823. Alex. Humboldt: Melastomaceæ. 64 very fine coloured plates.--_P. P._
1823-1827. W. J. Hooker: Exotic Flora. Three vols., 8vo. 232 beautiful coloured plates.--_City._
1827. W. J. Hooker and T. Taylor: Muscologia Britannica. Exquisitely illustrated.--_City._
1828. Curtis's Flora Londinensis. Continued by W. J. Hooker. Two vols., folio. Most beautiful plates.--_City._
1828. Wm. Roscoe: Monandrian Plants. Atlas folio. Contains 112 splendid coloured plates.--_Chet._
1829. W. J. Hooker and Greville: Icones Filicum. Two vols., folio. Full of splendid plates.--_City._
1830-1832. N. Wallich: Plantæ Asiaticæ Rariores. Three vols., huge folio, containing 295 superb coloured plates.--_City, Chet._
1834-1843.--Baxter: British Flowering-plants. Six vols., 8vo. Full of beautiful coloured plates.--_City._
1837. Jas. Bateman: The Orchidaceæ of Mexico and Guatemala. Folio. 40 superb coloured plates.--_Chet._
1838. Endlicher: Nova Genera (of South American plants). Folio. Full of fine plates.--_City._
1838. J. C. Loudon: Arboretum Britannicum. Eight vols. Over 400 plates and 2,500 woodcuts.--_P. P._
1838. John Lindley: Sertum Orchidaceum. A wreath of the most beautiful orchidaceous flowers. Splendid coloured plates.--_Chet._
1839. J. F. Royle: Illustrations of the Botany of the Himalayan Mountains and of the Flora of Cashmere. Two vols., folio. 90 beautiful coloured plates.--_City._